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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1906
Page
5
Capt Jarvis returns from Washington detailing a proposed Alaska fisheries bill. The plan adds a state fund for salmon propagation, requires canneries to be approved and report operations, bans waste and false branding, and imposes fines up to 100 dollars or ninety days in jail for violations.
Readable text shows a shop offering thousand yards of ribbon at ten cents and promotions on fancy goods and spring dry goods. Mentions Pike and Beaty in association with the sale and stock, indicating a retail promotion throughout.
The senate confirmed Charles Jones as post master at Artington. In Ohio the senate passed the Aiken house bill raising the saloon tax from 356 to 1000 dollars and rejected a motion to reconsider. A worn prisoner in Corsicana County Jail started a fire in his cell.
A blaze broke out beyond control and four prisoners died from burns while a fifth was fatally injured as inmates were being moved. The starting fire was set by a Black man who was among the victims. In other news, a $5,000 Red Cross famine relief gift arrived in Washington for Japan and actor William H. McDonald, a Bostonians founder, died in Springfield Massachusetts at 66. A will left $655,000 to Tuskegee Alabama from Andrew T. Dotger, a retired New York merchant who died recently in South Orange New Jersey.
If the present weather continues Seattle residents will move to the Alki Point camping grounds by mid next month. Many have already chosen sites for summer homes and inquiries indicate Alki Point on both the east and west sides will host more campers than ever before.
Capitalists in New York and Tanana mine operators report raising $500000 to build the Chatanike ditch, a 72 mile water carrier planned to deliver 15000 inches of water. Construction to begin within ten days as surveys indicate a feasible route with a 1100 foot fall to Cleary creek mines. Water ready by September for next season’s mining needs.
Strong resolutions seconding the Humphrey bill, before the Washington committee, were adopted by Seattle and Alaska lawyers at the Alaska club. The measure would hear appealed Alaska cases in Seattle rather than San Francisco, citing Seattle's northern business ties and the travel burden on Alaska counsel.
A secret surveying party works near here over three days amid speculation they are laying routes for a street railway. They sketch paths from Danlap to tidewater via Waterlov toward Beon ton and along the old military road west of Columbia, aiming to connect with Beacon Hill and extend Rainier Heights southward.
Inside King County Jail inmates pursue writing with a rented typewriter. Notable figures include George Edward Adama composing life histories for eastern publications and J. H. LeRoy, a petty criminal turned prolific poet and novelist, sending manuscripts nationwide while leveraging stamps from visitors.
The Star publishes Mies Gontckey’s signed denial of linking Booker T. Washington to a Seattle visit after being accused of spreading the rumor. A banquet for Alaska Yukon exposition commissioners is set for April 4 at the Washington hotel. County officials assess damages from a street cut through the Georgetown poor farm, requesting 2000 in compensation. Beattie Stenographers elect officers led by George E Preaton. March’s rainfall sharply lower than average with 0.31 inches. Citywide building considerations block street widening without property dedications from owners.
William Evans of Mt Baker Avenue was badly scalded while repairing a bearing at Baring Mill Co. Ellen Ward’s funeral was held at the Catholic chapel with Rev. Father Lorrigan officiating. The Columbia school board elected C. K. Sturtevant as member and installed W. G. Frost as chairman with C. B. Gathria as clerk as the district grows. J H Halbert of Fontanelle Iowa visited Seattle and considered local real estate and investments promising.
Public library staff recruits begin training ahead of a new building. Several legal cases advance including beating sentences and Sullivan estate suit motions. Community groups discuss park improvements and street regrades while social events, marriages, and sewer petitions appear in city notices.
A dense listing of produce and goods with varied prices including tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, cauli, artichokes, potatoes, apples, lemons, oranges, grapefruit, and boxes of fruit. Also includes butter, cheese, poultry, meat, live stock, halibut, salmon, shrimp, and other perishables with price ranges and packaging terms. Entities include California produce, Washington creamery, and Eastern dairy products.
A fragmented listing shows prices for Cod, Timothy, wheat hay, whole corn, cracked corn and feed, cement, plaster parts, lime, fire brick, iron and metal goods. It notes a full line of notions and general dry goods available at High School Stationery & Nation Store located at 725 E. Pike near Harvard Ave. and Pike.
Advertising note touts photograph quality at low cost with panels priced at 50 cents per dozen and directs readers to 106 Columbia Street for purchase.
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